ofsociotechnical thinking into the course curriculum, Professor B did not have the same interactionwith other faculty members because it was the only section of the course taught each semester.Although this was not a direct insight but rather an indirect one, it seemed to have addedadditional challenges to Professor B, which may contribute to faculty burnout and an increase inimposter syndrome. The other key difference in both faculty reflection logs includedsociotechnical integration teaching techniques, where Professor A had a more project-basedtechnique, while Professor B’s teaching technique included more prompts/anchors to theirtechnique. It should be noted that although both techniques were different, both seemed to haveresonated on some level with
Paper ID #34542Design Across the Curriculum: Reinforcing the Design Process in aChemistry-for-Engineers CourseProf. Katherine Goodman, University of Colorado Denver Katherine Goodman is assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver, and curriculum lead at Inworks, an interdisciplinary innovation lab. Her research focuses on transformative experiences in engineering education. She is currently division chair of the Technological and Engineering Literacy - Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE).Ms. Susan Garver Stirrup, University of Colorado Denver Susan Garver Stirrup is a full time Instructor in the College of
Paper ID #33584Inclusivity in Engineering Curriculum in the Age of Industry 4.0: TheRole of Internet of ThingsDr. Shuvra Das, University of Detroit Mercy Dr. Shuvra Das started working at University of Detroit Mercy in January 1994 and is currently Pro- fessor of Mechanical Engineering. Over this time, he served in a variety of administrative roles such as Mechanical Engineering Department Chair, Associate Dean for Research and Outreach, and Director of International Programs in the college of Engineering and Science. He has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
at Harvey Mudd College. His research interests include experi- ential and hands-on learning, and integrating mechanical, chemical and quantum devices into circuits and communication links. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Engineering Identity, Slackers and Goal Orientation in Team Engineering ProjectsAbstract -- This research paper will describe the results from a qualitative investigation oflong-running, team-based engineering projects at a small liberal arts college. Long-running,team-based engineering projects are projects in which groups of students perform an engineeringtask over three or more weeks
professional emails, communicating with team members, keeping minutes fora meeting, or summarizing a meeting with little or no formal instruction. When communicationeducation is included, it is included as an add-on and often only addressed at the level ofproficiency of the instructors (who are typically not experts in professional communication).The purpose of this paper is to outline a multi-course effort at Michigan State University tomeaningfully integrate a professional communication curriculum into their core engineeringclasses. The paper outlines the development of a multi-course syllabus and leveraging anexisting communications education solution. Careful work is done to integrate communicationeducation into the course objectives and
professionals in systems engineering and related fields that have integrated DEIinto their work to provide recommendations for how DEI principles can be integrated intoengineering education. Participants were recruited online and through snowball sampling. Semi-structured interviews were completed with 15 participants either over the phone or on a videochat platform. These interviews were analyzed through inductive content analysis, which yieldedthree themes related to integrating DEI into systems engineering education: curriculumdevelopment, course design, and educator development. The results from this study align withrecent calls in higher education to decolonize the curriculum. Beyond strategies like ensuringrepresentation in class readings and
Paper ID #32901Augmenting Traditional ME Curriculum with Digital Badge Microcreden-tialsDr. Andrea Gregg, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Gregg is the Director of Online Pedagogy and an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Penn State Me- chanical Engineering department. She facilitates faculty development to maximize teaching and learning efficacy throughout the ME curriculum, with a primary focus on online learning. She is also respon- sible for leading quality instructional design for residential and online offerings; facilitating an activity community of practice for Mechanical Engineering faculty dedicated to
from M.E.T.U. in Turkey. Her technical research interests are in structural and characterization of TiO2 thin films and magnetic nanoparticles along with pedagogical research interests in improving engineering physics curriculum and seeking solutions to gender bias.Dr. Ashley J. Earle, York College of Pennsylvania Ashley is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical and Civil Engineering department at York College of Pennsylvania. She received her B.S in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and B.A. in International Studies from Lafayette College. She then pursued her passion for neuromuscular disease research at Cornell University where she received her PhD in Biomedical Engineering. At York, she is passionate about
increasingly difficult to facilitate due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is an integral component of any comprehensive engineering education program. Aproject-based approach using low-cost, pre-made kits offers practical experience in teamworkand collaboration, system design and implementation, problem solving and refinement ofinterdisciplinary skillsets through projects that can be completed at home or in the classroom.Robotics instruction and experimentation provides a means to achieve robust interdisciplinarylearning outcomes, facilitating long-term retention of engineering concepts by illustrating theconnections between theory and practice. This paper aims to establish the need for designintegration throughout the undergraduate curriculum, identify
first year, a course in the second year focusing on measurement andfabrication, a course in the third year to frame technical problems in societal challenges, andculminates with our two-semester, client-driven fourth-year capstone design sequence.The impetus to create a design thread arose from preparation for an ABET visit where weidentified a need for more “systems thinking” within the curriculum. Here systems thinkingrefers to understanding abstraction and its relation to system decomposition and modularity;students having difficulty making engineering evaluations of systems based on data; andstudents’ difficulty transferring skills in testing, measurement, and evaluation from in-class labscenarios to more independent work on projects. We
models in a differentway when communicating with peers rather than with teachers and instructors, resulting inpotentially different forms of engagement and learning [11].The goal of this paper is to understand how peer comparison can influence the quality ofconceptual models within an engineering design task in elementary classroom contexts. Weinvestigate the effects of structured peer comparison to help students develop conceptual models.We explore the changes in quality of conceptual models and students’ thoughts about the peercomparison activities in a post-activity interview. By exploring how elementary students developconceptual models during a 4-week engineering design curriculum unit, we aim to inform thefield as to how to support
Stanford University forover half a century and has engaged students in an immersive yearlong (nine months) coursesequence with industry-sponsored projects focusing on various phases of integrated designthinking through engineering fabrication. Through transitions in the teaching team, projectsponsors, and paralleling the evolution in modern and innovative engineering practices andchanging societal needs, ME310 maintains a pedagogical emphasis on helping student teamsmeet defined process milestones in order to produce a refined functional prototype that ispresented to the broader design community at the end of the year [8]. In ME310, many alumni,as practicing professionals in industry, come back to the course to serve as project advisors,sometimes
systems can be designed andcreated to provide an integrative learning environment via a theme that connects and transfers theknowledge across a curriculum. The paper will focus on the results of the project from twoperspectives: technological and educational. The technological perspective will describe theresearch efforts of automatically generating virtual environments using the reinforcementlearning (RL) approach while the educational perspective will summarize the results on theeffectiveness of the CLICK approach on students’ motivation, engineering identity, and learningoutcomes.IntroductionThis paper presents the results of our NSF project entitled Leveraging Virtual Reality (VR) toConnect Learning and Integrate Course Knowledge (CLICK) in
learning quickly - for example, you might review new curriculum, prep for the lesson, and teach, all within a short period of time. Do you think your development in these areas will be of benefit in the future, either as a student or in your career? ● In our previous conversations, you spoke about the teaching and learning environment in university - and how it can be quite limited and uninspiring in its focus on transmission-based lectures. In contrast, you described your work with (outreach program) as reflecting a broader set of teaching and learning activities, giving you an opportunity to explore subject matter and your understanding of it in different ways. Can you speak a little more to this
and engineering: A multi-year study,” in 2001 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, Albuquerque, NM, June 24-27, 2001, pp. 6.182.1 – 6.182.8[6] P R. W. Hendricks, & E. C. Pappas, “Advanced engineering communication: An integrated writing and communication program for materials engineers,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 85, pp. 343 – 352, 1996[7] G. G. Lowry, “An integrated physics-chemistry curriculum for science majors,” Journal of Chemical Education, Vol. 46, pp. 393-395, June 1969.[8] F. J. Buckley, Team teaching : What, why, and how? Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2000.[9] D. C. S. Summers, and G. A. Bohlen, “Team teaching an interdisciplinary course: Lessons
Paper ID #33372The Benefits of an Engineering Field Trip for Women StudentsDr. Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame Dr. Kerry Meyers holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Education (B.S. & M.S. Mechanical Engineering) and is specifically focused on programs that influence student’s experience, affect retention rates, and the factors that determine the overall long term success of students entering an engineering program. She is the Assistant Dean for Student Development in the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. She is committed to the betterment of the undergraduate curriculum and is still actively
production ofbiodiesel from vegetable oil with each laboratory period highlighting a different aspect of theprocess involved. The four laboratory sessions covered concepts including batch reaction,separation of products, purification of biodiesel using an ion exchange mechanism, and glycerinpurification using distillation with emphasis on methanol recycling. Aspen modeling of thedistillation process, and fuel property testing along with product utilization in a diesel generatorwas demonstrated. The students were able to see the integration of each experiment with respectto the overall engineering process and complete mass balances on individual processes and thecomplete process over the course of the semester. Additionally, fundamental
Engineering Education Center, and Caruth Institute of Engineering Education. He specializes in Engineering, STEM, and Project Based Learning instruction. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Computer Science and Computational Thinking Across the Early Elementary Curriculum (Work in Progress)In 2016 Amazon announced an extensive search to identify a home for its second headquarters,HQ2. Our city, Dallas, TX was near the top of the list for most of the competition. However,when the final choice was announced two years ago, Dallas lost to Washington, D.C. and NewYork City. According to the Dallas Mayor, who was an active member of the
Paper ID #34267Graduate Curriculum in Mechatronics and Robotics: Development andImplementation Challenges for Engineering TechnologyDr. Avimanyu Sahoo, Oklahoma State University Avimanyu Sahoo received his Ph.D. and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Missouri Univer- sity of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, and Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi, India, in 2015 and 2011, respectively. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Division of Engineering Technology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA. His teaching interests include mechatron- ics, control systems, electrical
outsourced to a major engineering firm that isrenowned for its innovative approaches to civil engineering projects. Our project team seeksto implement yet another improvement effort. The goals of this project are threefold:(1) Develop an understanding of how to balance industry involvement(2) Generate mechanisms for sustainable adoption of changes (e.g. consensus building)(3) Evaluate short- and long-term student outcomes for the courseIn this work-in-progress paper, we will detail the context around the integrated capstonedesign (ICD) course and provide an overview of our intended adjustments to the course. Thisproject involves both programmatic implementation and research elements. We will explainour research plans and current status as well as
teaching project management with PMI providing various certifications.All the current teaching curriculum is mostly focused on PM technology developed somedecades ago with new tools helping to automate them. The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI)and its use in PM provide new opportunities for prediction and better results. This paper willinvestigate and demonstrate the adaptability of AI for PM, and how the teaching curriculum canbe changed to help introduce the AI for better project performance. PMI, from a professionalperspective, is also beginning to discuss the use of AI.This paper will cover two current teaching methods followed by details of AI for PM and itsteaching. First, we discuss a common teaching method that uses an engineering
Paper ID #34008Creating ACTIVE Learning in an Online EnvironmentDr. Katie LeAnne Basinger, University of Florida Lecturer and Undergraduate Program Coordinator at The University of Florida, in Industrial and Systems Engineering. I currently teach a large service course (Engineering Economy) as well as the capstone course for the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department. My research is focused on practical ap- plications of active and supplemental learning techniques for Generation Z students. I am highly involved with the development and modernization of the industrial engineering curriculum and coursework.Mr. Diego
identifyingopportunities and creating value -the key elements of an entrepreneurial mindset- are now otherhighly valued qualities that employers want to see. Therefore, EM is gaining attraction inengineering education. Literature provides many examples of institution wide efforts aim topromote EM. These efforts are important and necessary in brining attention to EM and exposingstudents to diverse EM experiences. It is equally important to foster EML in individual courses,as EM is not an add-on but rather a way of practicing engineering that addresses the needs ofpeople and society. Hence it should be built into the curriculum. This paper presents a case studythat aims to integrate EM into a junior level engineering statistics course. Statistics is typically
Paper ID #33453Migrator Stories in an Aerospace Engineering ProgramDr. Devayan D. Bir, Loras College Prior to teaching at Loras College, Devayan pursued his doctorate in Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University and has worked as a Computer Aided Analyst in India. He earned his B.E. in Aeronautical Engineering, and has been passionate about Aerospace Engineering all his life. Hobbies include playing the guitar, soccer, and photography. Research interests include innovative pedagogies (Active, Flipped, and Online instruction) and applied numerical methods. Devayan has published peer reviewed papers, presented at
takinghis class, and how he organizes his curriculum to accommodate this and build upon what theyare expected to know. However, he does not have any notable examples of the “environmental”part of EESI.Jimmy, an engineering teacher, answered that he did not integrate environmental/societalimpacts in his classes. You know, not a lot. There is something in everything you touch on as the course gets going. For example, I have an article on the most recent issue of [construction] magazine, which is really interesting as it talks about the concrete and steel industry and how mass timber is a kind of a saving grace for both the environment and the construction industry. So that’ll be part of a discussion on the depth of
.Hassanpour, B., Utaberta, N., and Zaharim, A. (2010). “Redefining Critique Session as an Assessment Tool In Architecture Design Studio Class,” WSEAS Transactions on Advances in Engineering Education, 9(7).Holland, R., Parfitt, M. K., Pihlak, M, Poerschke, U., Messner, J. and Solnosky, R. (2010) “Integrated Design Courses Using BIM as the Technology Platform”, Academic Best Practices / Implementing BIM into Higher Education Curriculum, National Institute of Building Sciences, Annual Meeting / EcoBuild America Conference, December 7, 2010, Washington, DCHowlett, C., Ferreira, J.-A., and Blomfield, J. (2016). “Teaching sustainable development in higher education: Building critical, reflective thinkers through an interdisciplinary
would otherwise be time prohibitive.However, there is a concerning trend of students depending too heavily on this technology.Technology provides an avenue through which students can feign comprehension and continueadvancing in the curriculum. The purpose of this study is to look at different pedagogicalapproaches and their effects on student’s self-efficacy and topic comprehension. To address this,we worked with a required course (ESI4221C: Industrial Quality Control) in the Industrial andSystems Engineering (ISE) curriculum at the University of Florida (UF). This course focuses onquality control and builds on statistical fundamentals while also introducing new theoreticalconcepts such as tests statistics, confidence intervals, p values, and
historically underrepresented groupsin STEM, and the PREM program, which is designed to increase diversity in materials researchdisciplines by creating research/education partnerships between minority serving institutions(MSI) and universities which are “leading sources of degrees in materials-related fields” [5].Traditionally, our PREM partners send a select group of their PREM-funded student scholars tocontinue their materials science research at Penn State during the 10-week REU summerprogram. PREM REU student-scholars are in a unique position because a summer REU at PennState is a continuation of their own research from their home institution, integrated within thelarger PREM-MRSEC collaboration. Thus, an intrinsic goal of the in-person PREM
. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 The Benefits of Internal Design Reviews in an Engineering Capstone CourseAbstractIn a large engineering capstone course, it is important for the instructors (Engineering Directors)to connect with each student team to ensure individual student success as well as overall projectsuccess. A way we have incorporated this into our curriculum is via a sequence of three internaldesign reviews: a Design Approval Review (DAR) held near the end of the first semester, aProject Readiness Review (PRR) scheduled eight weeks before the end of the project, followedfour weeks later by the presentation of a Mandatory First Prototype
learning.Dr. Conrad Tucker, Carnegie Mellon University Conrad Tucker is a professor of mechanical engineering. He focuses on the design and optimization of systems through the acquisition, integration, and mining of large scale, disparate data. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 A Study on the Effectiveness of the CLICK Approach in an Operations Research CourseAbstractThis paper presents an investigation of the effectiveness of the connected learning and integratedcourse knowledge (CLICK) approach. The CLICK approach aims to integrate the knowledgeacross the industrial engineering (IE) curriculum by leveraging immersive technology